Google suppresses bland Iraq footage on behalf of the US
First China, then the US....
What is going on with this?
Google Suppresses on behalf of US
Google suppresses bland Iraq footage on behalf of the US
First China, then the US....
What is going on with this?
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Re: Google Suppresses on behalf of US
This is just laughable. Not showing nasty pictures isn't going to make it all go away. I wouldn't call it 'surpresses' but it is censorship at it's kremlinst.
ooops oh suppresses
Last edited by Fragony; 02-27-2006 at 16:12.
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Stupidity most likely.Originally Posted by Idaho
Edit: Only need the answer the question.
Last edited by Redleg; 02-28-2006 at 01:31.
O well, seems like 'some' people decide to ruin a perfectly valid threat. Nice going guys... doc bean
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I guess one has to give them a few brownie points for being equal opportunity brown-nosers.
...actually, I was suddenly reminded of something Hobsbawm drily observed in Age of Extremes. Something about "big business" being able and willing to adapt to and cooperate with any regime, as any regime will find it necessary to adapt to and cooperate with it or something along those lines... 'Course, he put it rather more elegantly but I'm working from vague memory here.
"Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. --- Proof of the existence of the FSM, if needed, can be found in the recent uptick of global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters. Apparently His Pastaness is to be worshipped in full pirate regalia. The decline in worldwide pirate population over the past 200 years directly corresponds with the increase in global temperature. Here is a graph to illustrate the point."
-Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
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That article smells like BS too me.
If you search for "IED Iraq" in Google video, you get several hits that actually show clips of IED explosions. Im not sure if the one the author is whining about actually shows up or not, but it'd be pretty lousy censorship to censor one safe IED detonation and leave several others.The US media's reluctance to relay the human cost of the war has been fiercely criticized. But Google's willingness to censor innocuous video footage for domestic audiences suggests that rather than being a challenge to the media hierarchy that so many utopians wish it to be, Google falls into line as readily as any three-man cable affiliate.
More than likely, it was some kind of technical glitch and the author is just having a knee-jerk over reaction.... This guy is bordering on tinfoil hat conspiracy stuff anyhow, as evidenced by this paranoid sounding paragraph.
Hardly sounds like unbiased journalism.Last spring, Google chose to hire one of the most prominent public relations faces of the Iraq invasion, plucking Dan Senor (pictured left) from the desert dust where he was massaging the press on behalf of his then boss, Paul Bremer. Some might consider Dan's CV - a career in the Carlyle Group, flacking for a hardcore Israeli lobby group, and jogging credentials with the Bush-Cheney campaign a little salty. But not Google, who around the same time, also hoisted former ICANN flack and Berkman "fellow" Andrew McLaughlin into a job.
"Don't believe everything you read online."
-Abraham Lincoln
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Need to read the whole article in its most recent version:
"Alas it's not Google that's doing the censoring - and a big red-faced Oops from The Reg. Google explained last week that uploaders had made the decision not to make the clip available to US internet users."
We all learn from experience. Unfortunately we don't all learn as much as we should.
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Come on throwing a fit about not seeing all of the pyrotechnics involved in disposing of a roadside bomb. Seriously if you scream censorship over that then I think you need to have some more fun during the 4th of July, they look pretier anyways. And what kind of person has a need to watch a poor soldier be turned to red dust over the internet anyways.Google suppresses bland Iraq footage on behalf of the US
First China, then the US....
What is going on with this?
Wine is a bit different, as I am sure even kids will like it.
"Hilary Clinton is the devil"BigTex
~Texas proverb
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Hey, looks like I nailed it!
"Don't believe everything you read online."
-Abraham Lincoln
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Well, now there's something to worry about...
Born On The Flames
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I should have read the article.
It seems silly to dissalow that video.
there are Many worse...
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Did you see that? Did you see that? He opressed me! Oh, there he goes again! Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!
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"are you the popular front of judeah?"
" !!**** ***!! we're The Judeans People's front. !"
"i thought we wer the peoples front of judeah?"
"No were the Judeans peoples front"
otters noses Larks toungs get em whilst there hot
" i thought we were the popular peoples front ..whos the popular peoples front then??"
Larks toungs...
"he is over there"
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Psst...
You missed a quote in your sig..
"They have miss-underestimated us"
Bush.
Last edited by Just A Girl; 03-01-2006 at 06:14.
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Not enough room.
That's for the next edition.
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